By Stephen Marks
MONTEVIDEO — It's easy to find the alternative media in Uruguay. Sidewalk kiosks in the capital display a wide variety of progressive magazines and newspapers which provide a refreshing alternative to the "infotainment" produced
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Price of justice
Readers will be aware of Brandon Astor Jones who has written the Looking Out column for Green Left Weekly for the past three years. Brandon has spent many years on death row, in Georgia, USA, after being sentenced to death by an
CPSU activist Ben Courtice writes from Hobart that 153 CPSU members working in the Australian Public Service attended a meeting last week to discuss plans to fight cuts to the APS. The meeting discussed the motion from the National Executive and an
By Conor Twyford
WELLINGTON — An election as early as September is now on the cards in New Zealand following the resignation on April 23 of the New Zealand First MP for Hawkes Bay, Michael Laws. Laws, who left the National Party in March to join
By Richard Horsey
SLORC, the military junta which rules Burma, is well known as one of the most repressive regimes on the planet. Otherwise staid diplomats have used terms such as "hydra-headed" and "barbaric" to describe SLORC's recent behaviour.
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 4pm-7pm.
Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31,
The NSW Labor government is to consider a so-called new scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to the May 4 Sydney Morning Herald, the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is working on a plan which will allow energy distributors
Repeal abortion laws
Within the next few months, the woman involved in the medical negligence case (CES vs Superclinics) will have to argue the legality of abortion in NSW to the High Court. The outcome could have implications nationally for a
By Kathryn Hamilton
While the war goes on in north-east Sri Lanka, the people of Iranawila are fighting their own battle against what they see as information domination by the US broadcasting station Voice of America. The battle of the people of
By Natasha Simons
Attacks on jobs, wages and welfare are coming thick and fast under the Howard government, the latest being an attempt to get more young homeless people off social security benefits. On May 1, the federal government announced the
By Kevin McLoughlin
DUBLIN — "The remarkable performance of the Militant Labour candidate, Mr Joe Higgins, in Dublin West — who came within striking distance of taking the Fianna Fail seat — was not just a vote against water charges: it was a
By Jenny Forward
HOBART â Jim Everett, writer and member of the Palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal community), believes that the federal Coalition government is on a "witch-hunt" against Aborigines. Why isn't the government investigating the
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